OTTAWA—The federal Conservative party has yet to decide whether it will remain committed to the climate-change targets set out in the Paris Agreement, the Star has learned. When asked if that policy would be based on a commitment to the Paris targets, Scheer’s office said only that their environmental plan will lower emissions. “Conservatives believe that climate change is a global problem requiring a global solution, as laid out in the Paris accord. The Paris Agreement, the UN’s framework convention on climate change, was agreed to by 196 countries in December 2015. In a report released in December, the federal government projected that while existing measures would curb emissions by some 223 megatonnes by 2030, Canada would still fall 79 megatonnes short of the Paris targets.

Source: thestar April 30, 2019 02:19 UTC